Illustration: Fatal effects of tight lacing & large Bonnets From "Scraps and Sketches," Part I.
Again, in "Scraps and Sketches" (1832) two elephants laugh together over a pseudopun on the word trunk.
To my mind the best topical plate in "Scraps and Sketches" is London going out of Town, or the March of Bricks and Mortar (1829).
The blacksmith walks upon scraps of iron, the shoemaker on leather parings, the carpenter on shavings, and the butcher on sheepskins.
Paul's scholarship was very rudimentary, as is shown in not a few scraps of ungrammatical Latin: he never, I think, ventures on Greek.
Sam shook his head very solemnly as these last thoughts came into his head in company with recollections of scrapshe had read in the daily papers about encounters with the dervishes, and the horrible massacres they had perpetrated.
Had she not, during the past years, often seen such missives, from which the Professor had read her scraps of news?
Cheiron pictured things--John Derringham flattered and courted by the world and surrounded by adoring woman, while Halcyone sat at home in some quiet corner and received the scraps of his attentions that were left.
It is the business of Peter, in the first place, to walk around in the neighbourhood where he resides in order to pick up what scraps of information he can find.
The scraps of facts which may lie scattered among the profusion of your hyperbolisms may be old acquaintances of your hearers.
The sodden remains of many letters he withdrew and tried to read, but the scraps gave no tangible result, and he was just about to relinquish his search when his eye caught a scrap of bright blue notepaper of a familiar hue.
People paid him to give this meat to their cats and dogs instead of feeding them on dog-biscuits or the scraps from the table.
Upstairs I found our vessel surrounded by white and gray seagulls who flashed and circled about in the sunny morning air, looking for food-scraps thrown out by the ships into the harbor.
Then we searched our pockets for any odd scraps of paper on which to jot down still more observations.
It makes me laugh; there arescraps of wall-paper about.
He made the scraps into a little pile on the floor of the car, set fire to them, and ground them to ashes with his heel.
For the detective having again fidgetted to the 'phone, Herrick had shaken out upon the table-cloth the handful of torn scraps from the waste-paper basket.
Ten Euyck won't rest contented till he has stopped mice from stealing scraps of cheese!
He shook the scraps into his handkerchief and, setting the lamp on the desk, he bent above the crumpled sheet.
Even in the Schools these scraps of Greek lapidary's work seem beautiful to us, in their sober and cheerful acceptance of life and death.
I might have seen it was not a tightly folded wad of stiff paper I had watched burn up, but just the light torn scraps Paulette had thrown in with it.
It was my boots, especially if I had been walking across Regent Park and brought in honest earth instead of pavement scraps and taxi smells.
The proper thing to do, after giving everybody time to read their letters several times over, was to go from room to room and pick up such scraps of war news as had escaped the eye of the censor.
One cause lay in his unfortunate ambition to write in the style of his eighteenth-century predecessors in English, with the accompanying mythological allusions, personifications, and scraps of artificial diction.
The later verses of My Love She's but a Lassie Yet, however, though full of vivacity, have so little to do with the first or with one another that the song seems to be a collection of scraps held together by a common melody.
So they went to the house, and little Two Eyes again left the scraps on the dish untouched, and One Eye could not tell her mother whether little Two Eyes had eaten anything in the field; for she said to excuse herself, "I was asleep.
In the evening, when she went home with the goat, she found an earthenware dish with some scraps which her sisters had left for her, but she did not touch them.
Another thing, I have in my pocketbook scraps of a letter written by you in which you say you have sent Paris green out to poison our cattle, and you did succeed in a way, but not as you wished.
It was none of the gaunt, half-starved, cowardly brutes that follow in the pack and take what the master wolf leaves of the scraps of the murdered calf or sick cow or sheep which the leaders of the pack have pulled down.
Several of the windows, too, have scraps of poetry engraved on them with diamonds, taken from the writings of the fair Mrs. Phillips, the once celebrated Orinda.
The bird knew his coming, and, indeed, would answer nobody’s whistle but his; and Monjoy had taught it scraps of songs.
Men made runs towards it with a long hook, and retreated again before the fierce heat, with scraps of smoking flesh at the end of the hook.
Such small scraps of information as she had gathered together about the well, she repeated to us in low, reverential tones, as if its former religious uses still made it an object of veneration in her eyes.
For years it had been her one preoccupation, and she could not bear even to look at the little stand, now quite bare of the litter of scraps which had lain on it so long.
This seemed like a radiant spot to her as she bent over the innumerable scraps of cloth which already in her imagination ranged themselves in the infinitely diverse pattern of her masterpiece.
After dinner we threw the scraps overboard, and went on deck for a smoke, and watched the country steadily slipping away beneath us.
The remark was only one of those incidentalscraps of conversation that referred more particularly to business in general, than to that of any special banker.
The scraps are washed as clean as it is possible to get them, and then put through the creping machines.
Hurriedly Bart tore up some more scraps of paper and tossed them over.
His companions watched the scraps of paper anxiously.
